Villa Wilhelmina

English translation

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Description

Introduction

VILLA "Wilhelmina" built in 1898 in austere Art Nouveau style for the Dowager C.J. Hoog, née Ketelaar, who also laid the foundation stone on 20 April 1898. Design by architect Herman van der Kloot Meyburg (Rotterdam). Particularly notable is that the architect himself also lived in the house for the first seven years. The name of the villa and the construction year refer to the coronation year of Queen Wilhelmina. Originally, the villa had a coach house and a large garden adjacent to it. The neighbouring dwelling house (not protected) was built against the villa in the 1940s in place of the coach house and in the 1960s the current construction company was established in the garden on Verbeetenstraat.

Now the house stands free on three sides on a rectangular plot with the front facade facing north-west on the Haagweg and its left side facade on Verbeetenstraat. Around 1990 the house was converted for the housing of young people.

Description

The two-storey villa has a rectangular floor plan and lies parallel to the Haagweg under a composite hipped roof with flat and gable end under a saddle roof facing the street. The roofs, covered with grey interlocking tiles, all have a large overhang with wooden gutter boards and zinc gutters on a wooden gutter bottom supported by corbel-like consoles.

The masonry of the front and side facades consists of fair-faced work in pink/red hand-formed brick laid in stretcher bond with a projecting basement alternated by decorative masonry of yellow stone in the frieze and a rich application of dressed natural stone in Art Nouveau style for letterbox, setting stones, arches, corner blocks, lintels, entrance portico and conservatory.

The asymmetrical front facade contains two extensions, on the left a small three-sided bay window and on the right a monumental portico combined with a conservatory. Above these three components are balconies with above the middle one a sloping roof on two slender corner supports. The outer balconies have an iron balustrade, the middle one a brick-built one with a glass panel bearing the name of the villa. In the chalet-like gable end wooden framework with brick infill. Near the entrance three stones are laid. The first with the text: "on this day 20 April 1898 the foundation stone was laid by C.J.H. born K"; the second with the name of the architect Herman v.d. Kloot and the third with the text: "May Your Eyes be open Day and Night over this House. 1 Kings 8 verse 29A". In the window openings wooden frames with calf fitted with casement windows and doors and three or more carved mullions in the fanlight. In the conservatory a window wall with curved window corners and geometric glazing bars in the double doors. Carved front door in a rounded arch frame with fanlight. Wrought iron hinges and fittings and three perforated fanlights. The rear facade has an open veranda or loggia with a large balcony above it, supported among other things by three columns. At the last renovation the facade received a red rough decorative plaster finish. In the asymmetrical left side facade a wooden balcony executed in Art Deco style, on one side supported by a projecting chimney stack and on the other by two carved wooden corbels on dressed consoles. On the roof three chimneys with decorative masonry in projecting head, one of which topped with a saddle roof.

The house has a rich interior. The layout has scarcely changed. Particularly noteworthy are in both living rooms in the left part of the house the worked ceiling plasterwork, principal and secondary beams, beam consoles, built-in fireplace, black marble mantelpiece, wooden wainscoting and built-in cupboards. Of special importance are the mirror and frame belonging to the black marble fireplace and the wooden dresser cupboard both in Art Deco style. Further the two polychrome biblical texts respectively on the bay window and on a principal beam: "Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near", Isaiah 55, verse 6; "Incline your ear and come unto me. Hear, and your soul shall live, for I will make an everlasting covenant with you", Isaiah 55, verse 3. Originally both living rooms were separated by an elliptical arch-shaped wall opening. Now the opening is bricked up but this is still visible in its outline. The front room also has a parquet floor. The villa has fine tilework. Among other things in the hall/vestibule a wainscoting of white glazed tiles in Art Nouveau style with profiled edge. In the corridor, kitchen and toilet a tile floor consisting of a combination of diagonally patterned large yellow octagonal and small red square tiles and in the kitchen 19th-century white glazed earthenware tiles of 13x13 cm. Furthermore in the kitchen a glazed wooden dresser cupboard and a hanging chimney breast, three-sided resting on an iron U-section, supported by curved wrought iron rods. In corridor/landing a horseshoe arch and a wooden staircase with landings worked newel post, turned balusters, wooden handrail, string and waist.

Valuation

The villa is of general importance. It has cultural historical values as a particular expression of cultural development, notably the reception of Art Nouveau by the Brabantine elite. It has architectural historical values as an early example of the reception of Art Nouveau in southern Netherlands; it is of particular importance for the oeuvre of architect H. van der Kloot Meyburg who applied Art Nouveau in a strongly rational manner; it is of importance because of the particular use of materials. Integrity/recognisability: the object is of importance because of the architectural integrity of exterior and especially interior and as such is rare.